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On proceeding to Cairo, the caravan took, for the first stage from

Adjeroud, a route somewhat to the southward of that by which I had gone

to Sinai, and joined the latter at Dar el Hamra. Six hours and a half

from Adjeroud we passed Wady Khoeyfera [Arabic], the bed of a torrent,

with trees growing in it, a very little below the level of the

surrounding plain. Here I saw the ruins of a small stone reservoir, and

to a considerable distance round it, ruins of walls, and several wells,

some built with brick and others with stone. They appear to have been

surrounded by a wall, which now forms a circular enclosure of mounds

almost wholly covered with sands. The existence of these ruins, which I

do not remember to have seen mentioned by any traveller, confirms mybelief, that in the most ancient times regular stations

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